Historic Hudson River Towns

Home of the 'Legend'
2022-09-25 10:00 - 15:30, 2022-09-30 10:00 - 15:30, 2022-10-01 10:00 - 15:30, 2022-10-02 10:00 - 15:30, 2022-10-07 10:00 - 15:30, 2022-10-08 10:00 - 15:30, 2022-10-09 10:00 - 15:30, 2022-10-14 10:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) and 8 more dates | Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, 3 West Sunnyside Lane, Irvington, NY, United States
Explore “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
At this family-friendly happening, visitors can tour Washington Irving’s house—decorated for the season—watch an original shadow puppet short film, and enjoy games on the lawn. A special exhibit highlights how the Legend has lived in the imagination of popular culture through the centuries since its publication.

Honoring Indigenous Futures: Oil & Water, with Brooklyn Demme
2022-10-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960, United States
Two short documentary screenings. First is “Protection Not Protest: The People of Standing Rock” and second is “The Community of River Wachirpas.” An open community discussion will follow on Indigenous rights, relationships between land and culture and building community.

It's A Wonderful Life
2022-11-09 20:00 - 21:30 | Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, United States
A Holiday family classic that needs no introduction! The heartwarming story of how George Bailey finds the true Christmas Spirit with the help of another friendly spirit. Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers. Director Frank Capra.
Runtime: 118 Minutes
Rating: G

Hopper: An American Love Story Film Screening
2022-11-16 20:00 - 22:00 | The Nyack Center,58 Depew Ave, Nyack, NY 10960, USA
Filmmaker Phil Grabsky’s new documentary Hopper: An American Love Story was released in October 2022 to coincide with the Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition, “Edward Hopper’s New York” and Edward Hopper House Museum’s “Edward Hopper’s Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision.” The acclaimed film explores the enigmatic personality behind the brush, taking a deep look into Hopper’s art, his life, and his relationships, and prominently features Nyack in its opening chapter. UK, 2022, 94 minutes.
Price: $12 for members, $15 for non-members

You Resemble Me (Film Screening)
2022-11-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, 1008 Brown St, Peekskill, NY, 10566, United States
This Spike Lee and Spike Jonze executive produced drama tackles one of the darkest issues of our time – radicalization – in an unmissable story of cultural and intergenerational trauma on the outskirts of Paris. When two young sisters are torn apart, the eldest loses her identity and transforms into someone new in the name of belonging and resistance.
Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity, leading to a choice that shocks the world. Director Dina Amer takes on one of the darkest issues of our time and deconstructs it in an intimate story about family, love, sisterhood, and belonging.

My Talented Friends: An Evening of Short Documentaries by Marta Renzi
2022-12-15 19:00 | Rockland Center For the Arts, 27 S Greenbush Rd, West Nyack, NY 10994, USA
Join us for a film screening of rarely-seen documentaries by filmmaker and choreographer, Marta Renzi. A series of documentary films featuring talented artists who just happen to be filmmaker Renzi’s friends and colleagues. Each has graciously agreed to appear in a brief live performance, and /or exhibit their art. Films include: Arthur & Aileen, Dancing is an Old Friend, The Circus According to Cecil, Where the Dance Is, and Cathy & Harry. This event is in partnership with Rivertown Films. . . .
With Brief Performances by Special Guests:
Arthur Aviles
Doug Elkins
Cecil MacKinnon
For more information or to register, call (845) 358-0877 or visit www.rocklandartcenter.org
Free to the public (space is limited and reservations are suggested)

Film Screening of Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic
2023-01-25 18:00 | Nyack Library, 59 South Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month
This event is free, open to community, and will be followed by a talk back and expert panel discussion featuring a representative from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI),
Andrea Panjwani, Chief Legal Officer, Center for Safety & Change, and Jennifer Hammer, Coordinator of Anti-Human Trafficking Outreach and Services, Center for Safety & Change.
About the Film: Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic is an investigation into the world of online grooming and sextortion–a present-day reality for one in seven children online. By unsealing the federal case of a top-gun pilot with hundreds of victims, and interviewing survivors and their parents, this true-crime piece exposes an often-overlooked crime against children, the tactics of online predators, and the voices of parents and law enforcement poised to stop online child exploitation in its tracks.
This event is co-sponsored by:

PERSONAL PROBLEMS, streaming at Rivertown Film
2023-02-17 07:00 - 2023-02-23 23:30 | https://watch.eventive.org/rivertownfilm/play/63cf3fc657fe7a004cb76468
Defying the racially exclusive Hollywood studio system, novelist Ishmael
Reed, Rockland County director Bill Gunn and a renegade group of artists
banded together to make a “meta soap opera” about the struggles of a
working class couple in New York City in 1980. They illuminated Black
reality and soap opera banality through the story of a nurse’s aid and her
husband, leading us through the stresses of their lives. “With a
Fassbinderian flair for color and a neorealist’s eye for composition…
Gunn spins a potent ensemble drama from his modest domestic
milieu.”—Hollywood Reporter. USA, 1980, 165 minutes. Zoom discussion with
cast and crew members Sam Waymon and Marshall Johnson, moderated by Bill
Batson, on 2/21.
Personal Problems was produced on 3/4” videotape in 1980 and was shown once
on PBS. It was rediscovered in 2015 and restored, but the master tapes were
too badly degraded to bring them up to modern video standards.
“George Bernard Shaw said that “If you do not tell your stories others will
tell them for you and they will vulgarize and degrade you.” With few
exceptions, this expression can be applied to Hollywood’s treatment of
Blacks from the creation of the industry to now.” – Personal Problems
writer, Ishmael Reed
“Personal Problems is among those rare, quietly unassuming avant-garde
works that takes the trouble to be genuinely entertaining while pushing
formal and textual boundaries.” —Film Comment
